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The front cover of Alex Kerr's wartime experience as a bomber pilot member of the 'Catepillar Club' and PoW
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Studio portrait of Captain (Capt) Ronald Gilbert Horwood MM (left) and Capt Clarence Everard Pellew (right). Paris, France. October-December 1918
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Studio portrait of 411099 Aircraftman, later Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Allan Douglas Moffatt of Armidale, NSW. Enlisting in the RAAF in March 1941, Flt Sgt Moffat trained as an Aerial Gunner as part of the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) in Canada and England, and was posted to 625 Squadron RAF flying Lancaster bombers. On the night of 12/13 August 1944, Flt Sgt Moffatt's Lancaster, serial number ME733, radio call sign CF-Z, was shot down and crashed at Hollenstein, Germany after an operational sortie over Brunswick. He was killed alongside six other crew members, aged 24.
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QLD. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QFX22714 Captain Pauline Blanche (Blanche) Hempsted, 2/13th Australian General Hospital, Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS). She was one of sixty five Australian nurses and over 250 civilian men, women and children evacuated on the Vyner Brooke from Singapore three dyas before the fall of Malaya. The Vyner Brooke was bombed by Japanese aircraft and sunk in Banka Strait on 14 February 1942. Of the sixty five nurses, twelve were lost at sea, twenty two survived the sinking and were washed ashore on Radji Beach, Banka Island, where they surrendered to the Japanese along with twenty five British soldiers. On 16 February 1942 the group was massacred, the soldiers were bayoneted and the nurses were ordered to march into the sea where they were shot. Only Sister Vivian Bullwinkel and a British soldier survived the massacre. Both were taken POW, but only Sister Bullwinkel survived the war. Sister Hempsted was one of the remaining thirty two nurses who also survived the sinking and were captured as POWs, eight of which later died in captivity. Sister Hempsted died of illness on 19 March 1945 in Sumatra. (Photograph copied from original photograph attached to attestation form, lent by Central Army Records Office.)
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Physios and nurses of 2/4 AGH staging on Morotai Island, 1945 (Marjorie Hill back row, left)
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Australians standing by in a hot section of the front, 400 yards from the enemy. Many forward posts like this are isolated during the daylight hours (Original caption). This photograph was reproduced in the unit history 'Purple and blue: the history of the 2/10th Battalion' published in 1958. The men were identified in the unit history as, front to rear: VX35964 Private (Pte) William John Goodgame', VX36671 Pte Gordon James Watkins and SX1412 Pte Charles George Stening'. All three were promoted to the rank of Lance Corporal during their service. Lance Corporals Goodgame and Watkins were killed in action at Buna, Papua, on 24 December 1942. This image gives a clear impression a clear impression of the exposed nature of their position and the cramped conditions under which they operated. Charlie Stenning was a well known identity in the 2nd/10th Battalion Association after the War, Bill Goodgame in the foreground is clearly not planning to withdraw; he has no boots on! He is armed with a Thompson sub machine gun.
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935 Private Frank Oliver SCUTT 43rd Battalion RH#15
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Jack Reed (R) and mates somewhere in northern Australia
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Livingstone, NT. 20 January 1943. Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) R. (Dick) Cresswell, Commanding Officer of No. 77 Squadron RAAF, standing beside his Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk aircraft, serial no. A29-113, on which are painted as `nose art' the US, Australian, and RAAF flags. In this aircraft Sqn Ldr Cresswell shot down a Japanese Mitisubishi G4M medium bomber aircraft, code-name Betty, on 23 November 1942.
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Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. Air and ground crew of No. 202 Squadron RAF check equipment and ordnance issued to Consolidated Catalina Mark I, AJ159 'AX-B', on the slipway at North Front, Gibraltar, in preparation for a patrol.
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Richard FETHERSTON - Postcard to work colleagues from Cairo
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The victorious 1913 Waikerie Football team taken after they won the Grand Final against Morgan. Having won it for the third time in succession they 'retired' the trophy as was the practice at the time.
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HMAS Perth engaged in the Battle of Sunda Strait 1 March 1942, during which both HMAS Perth and USS Houston were sunk.
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WCDR John Balmer, while CO of No. 100 Squadron RAAF September 1942. Later CO of No. 467 Squadron, lost on Ops.
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Discharge Certificate (original) Edward Hewlett, 43 Bn AIF
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Fred Barson, June 1917 Hurdcott England
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Group Captain Hughie Edwards VC DSO DFC meeting the Prime Minister of Australia at RAAF Binbrook where Edwards was the Base Commander and RAAF No. 460 Squadron was based.
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Australian WW2 medal set for service in the South West Pacific - 1939-45 Star, Pacific Star, 1939-45 War Medal, Australian Service Medal 39-45
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Flying Officer Robert McKerlie Croft
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Arthur Harris: School cadets, Burra School, South Australia, 1907/8. Arthur Harris is seated second from right in the middle row. Service in school cadets was widespread in the colonies around the turn of the Century, and was a key component of the organisation of the Defence Force post Federation, following a review by Field Marshal Kitchener. They are armed with Martini-Henry .310 calibre 'Cadet' rifles. Photo: Harris family records
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Stonehaven War Memorial Panel
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Commissioned by the 28th Batttalion and 24th Anti-Tank Company Association Inc. as part of the Australian War Memorial’s Plaque Dedication Program.
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Sergeant John Francis Montgomery, 1st Light Horse Regiment Train, September 1914
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In November 1967 a 9 Squadron Iroquois lands to pick up members of the 7th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR) during operation Santa Fe, a gruelling three week-long operation through inhospitable country some 23 kilometres from the Task Force Base at Nui Dat. [AWM COL/67/1127/VN]
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James Liddell with his son, James Stanley Liddell NX8279. Probably taken in 1941.
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Arthur Bruce Durdin, MC and on the right is Major Karl Friederichs. Captain Durdin survived the war but Karl Friedrichs was killed in action by shellfire on 21 April near Dernancourt, France during defensive operations against the German Spring Offensive.
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Clarence Lamshed's medal set - British War Medal and Victory Medal
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Studio portrait of a Halifax bomber crew of 158 Squadron RAF. Identified left to right, standing: Sergeant L J Craven, flight engineer, of Harrogate, Yorks; 423908 Flying Officer (FO) Anthony Shanahan, bomb aimer, of Mascot NSW; 428765 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) James Arthur Nicholson, rear gunner, aged 22 of Ainslie ACT. Identified left to right, sitting: 420999 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Leonard Gower Paxman, wireless operator, aged 26 of Naremburn NSW; 414312 Warrant Officer (WO) Eric Ronald Fergus MacLeod, pilot, aged 27 of Townsville Qld; 422625 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Ernest Roy Moore, navigator, aged 22 of Braddon ACT; 428902 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Douglas Fitzgerald Bickford, mid-gunner, aged 22, of Gordon NSW. They were crewing LW724, radio call sign NP-S, during the air attack on Nuremberg on the night of 30 March 1944. Their plane was shot down by a German aircraft and crashed near Herborn-Seelbach. FO Shanahan bailed out and was taken prisoner of war in Germany. The rest of the crew were killed.
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An artists rendition of the attack by 15 Brigade north of the village of Villers-Bretonneux on the evening of 24/5 April 2018
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2/4 AGH, Labuan, Borneo, 1945
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Commemorative_Plaque
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21 Squadron Mosquitoes in echelon astern formation
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SX15214, S10005 Gordon NUNN
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2048 CRAM William 43rd Battalion AIF RH#20
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The River Murray near Waikerie South Australia
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22862, Kevin Anthony GABRIEL (MID), , Unit: Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV)
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DCM, MM, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
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KROKONG, BORNEO. 1965-05. RONALD T. CARROLL (KILLED IN ACTION 1968-08-08) AND 215627 PRIVATE NEIL BROWN, 'A' COMPANY, 3RD BATTALION, THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN REGIMENT (3RAR). (DONOR N. BROWN)
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AE2 in Fitzroy Dock Cockatoo Island Sydney Harbour
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A Lancaster crew of No 467 Squadron, RAAF, at Bottesford, Leicestershire, preparing to set off for Berlin on the evening of 31 August 1943. They are, from left: Flight Sergeants J Scott, G. Eriksen and A Boys, Sergeant C Adair, Flight Sergeant B Jones (Captain), Flight Sergeant J Wilkinson and Sergeant E Tull, RAF, the only Englishman in the crew. This aircraft is 'M for Mother' at this time a veteran of 40 missions. It appears in two other published images, one of which was close-up of the nose art on the aircraft (AWM UK UK0463). It also appears in another image on this site, with a different crew later in 1943 by which time it had racked up 53 missions.
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Studio portrait of 420870 Pilot Officer (PO) William Eldred Felstead, No. 467 Squadron, RAAF, of Sydney, NSW. A clerk prior to enlisting in December 1941, PO Felstead trained as a pilot in Australia, Canada and England with the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS). On 10 May 1944, PO Felstead was piloting Lancaster LL788, radio call sign PO-G, which exploded and crashed while on operations over Lille, France. PO Felstead and the six other crew members on board were killed. PO Felstead was 22 years of age.
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This is an image of the letter that William sent to the camp commander, begging for his discharge.
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Short ‘Empire’, VH-ABB ‘Coolangatta’ of QANTAS. Impressed by RAAF as A18-13 and allocated to 11 Squadron RAAF. It was returned to QANTAS on 13 July 1943, but crashed in Sydney Harbour on 11 October 1944.
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Vietnam War Memorial, Adelaide, South Australia
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